Trotsky: A Biography – Robert Service

Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.

Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, “ladies’ man” (e.g. his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted victim, Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times.

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Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives and on his profound understanding of Russian history to draw a portrait of the man and his legacy, revealing that though his followers have represented Trotsky as a pure revolutionary soul and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin and his henchmen.

The reality is very different, as this masterful and compelling biography reveals.

Links and Further Reading

• Independent Review
• Times Online Review

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